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As for the good, I agree with you about the judges, but I was a bit surprised by your comment about the songs. This season of AI was much better for newer songs than previous ones, but it seemed to me that I've discovered more new songs/artists from the Voice than from AI, so I did a quick check of my recent downloads and (not counting releases by prior contestants) the tally is AI 16, Voice 23 and 3 joint efforts.

The packaging by Idol is more thorough than the Voice, though they do sometimes get a bit carried away.

The bad: yes, Randy was a bit of a disaster - they need more mentors of the calibre of Harry. Perhaps letting Daughtry and David Cook have more input would have helped.

The ugly: agree about the Top 5 'twist', and as I mentioned once or twice, I wasn't too happy with the judges' treatment of Jessica - they seemed to have a bit of a blind spot about her.

That's interesting that you had a different perspective on the music than I did. It would take a thorough analysis to tell what the real breakdown is. Maybe my perspective was skewed by the prevalence of some really tepid song choices (usually from Shakira).